Improving traffic in India. An attempt by a psychiatrist.

This blog had the privilege of being noticed by Dr. Adhiraj Joglekar who has put in a great deal of effort to create material that can be used by interested people (like all the great folks who participate in the Ahmedabad Traffic Consultative Committee) to further the cause of better traffic in our environment.

See his blog at http://driving-india.blogspot.com/ where he has created a series of videos we could also use (with his permission, of course).

List of videos on his site:

1 Covers the concept of Blind spots

2 Introduces the principle of Mirrors, Signal and Manoeuvre

3 At red lights, stop behind the stop line

4 At red lights there are no free left turns

5 The Zebra belongs to pedestrians

6 Tyres and Tarmac (rather than bumper to bumper)

7 Merging with the Main road

8 Leaving The Main Road

9 Never Cut Corners

10 Show Courtesy (Gandhigiri) on roads

11 Five Rules that help deal with Roundabouts

12 Speed limits, stopping distances, tailgating & 2 seconds rule

13 Lane discipline and overtaking

14 Low beam or high beam?

15 Parallel (reverse) parking made easy

16 Give the cyclist the respect of a car

17 Dealing with in-car condensation

It seems he’s a psychiatrist. From that point of view he’s written an article on his website. Here is the link http://driving-india.blogspot.com/2008/01/traffic-chaos-on-indian-roads.html please read it and comment, either right here or on his website.